Notebook Bag

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

so how do u carry these? on your belt?

At least not on the belt I'd say, as there is no positive proof that any pouch of that sort (rectangular, box-like style) was normally worn on the belt at all, especially by soldiers. Note however that with the original the side panels are missing and that would be were I'd expect a shoulder strap to be attached to, all the more as the surviving leather does not show any sort of attachment of something like a strap etc (I'll probably attach a shoulder strap eventually).

Some funerary reliefs shows something with a square pattern atached into the sash-band (fascia ventralis). That might explain the absence of the shoulder strap.

Anneius Daverzus tombstone detail: